John McIntire:
retired military intelligence officer and newly
appointed township constable, in 1950s St. Adele, on the Upper Peninsula
of Michigan

Richard Hoyt

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John Denson: ex-reporter and ex-army intelligence operative,
in Seattle, Washington

C.C. Humphreys

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Jack Absolute: English
army captain and spy (based on a character in Richard Sheridan’s
play “The Rivals”) during the French and Indian War era
(late 1750s-1760s) in colonial America and London, England